State Police officer handles snake left along Parkway

BLOOMFIELD — If it were a movie, you could call it "Snake at a Toll Plaza."

State Trooper Steven Vallejo answered the call for a snake left in a broken aquarium at the Essex Toll Plaza on the southbound Garden State Parkway. Using his baton, Vallejo carefully lifted the snake and held onto it with his leather gloves.

Sgt. FC Jeff Flynn helped wrangle wayward cows and direct traffic along Route 29 last October as he made his way to work at the West Trenton headquarters. A bull showed up along the shoulder of Route 195 near Route 130 in Bordentown on a Sunday morning last August, and officers helped get it off the shoulder.